Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present The walk, first solo show of the artist Marta Naturale (Mirano, 1990). In the exhibition space, two cycles of works never shown before, realized between 2013 and 2021, reveal a tireless interest in those corners of everyday life otherwise neglected by the human eye. Isolated housing fragments, urban natures and silent domestic interiors are translated into fifteen small paintings on wood with an hyperrealistic taste, created with techniques based on the Italian painting tradition. An installation that aims to encourage a deeper and transversal reflection on the theme of genius loci, on that unstable boundary between nature and artifice that produces small glimpses of negligibility, but, at the same time, of sublime normality.

Marta Naturale leads us along a path of slow exploration, moving from the domestic space to the open space, a clear reference to the symbolic aspect of the threshold and how it always appears: a complex, albeit peaceful, agreement between the landscape, the human presence and the inanimate objects that inhabit it. With a voyeuristic spirit, Marta Naturale takes us to discover the corners of another nature, the one kept within the physical walls of a house, where memories, joys and anxieties are consumed or around urban gardens managed by the hand of man or compressed into residential enclosures.

Quoting Marc Augé, the artist represents at the same time a "tangible and symbolic construction of space", creating anthropological places full of information that she fragments into experiential moments. Through her calm and at the same time disturbing atmospheres, Marta Naturale simply invites us to dwell on the essence of things exactly as they appear to us.

Marta Naturale (Mirano, 1990) lives and works between Noale and Venezia. In 2019 she graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, specializing in the medium of Painting. Her research takes shape through the practices of painting and drawing. Her work has been exhibited in various exhibitions such as the 10th International Biennial of Engraving in Monsummano Terme (2017); the 101st and 102nd Young Artists Exhibition by Bevilacqua La Masa; Studio Tommaseo in Trieste with Opera Prima, curated by Miriam Pertegato, Paola Bristot, Giuliana Carbi (2018); Forte di Monte Ricco in Pieve di Cadore (BL), with Brain-tooling, curated by Gianluca D'Incà Levis, Riccardo Caldura, Petra Cason (2018). She concluded the programme Studi d'Artista Bevilacqua la Masa 2018-2019 by exhibiting at the BLM Gallery in the group show Opera Viva. In 2019 she received a special mention with StArt Padova and exhibited at Giotto SIM, Fornace Morandi (PD). In 2020 she started a collaboration with the gallery Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea (Rome).